"Phone Booth" Size (26x50)

[erik1925]

What is the background to this size poster, measuring approx 26 x50 inches? A curious name, too, as phone booths arent really around anymore. Is this a new(er) size? And when was it introduced?


Here's an EMP link showing a number of them for different movies they were made for. They all look to be advances:

http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/14/search/phone%2520booth/tag/xtype%253Amisc%2520item/archive.html

[eatbrie]

$1k for a Spectre poster 

Man, some people have way too much money.

T

[erik1925]

There must have been 2 Bond die hards going after that one. 

[50s]

That money could likely pay for a lifetime of rice for some poor third world person

[Ari]

Phone booths not around?

Do you know I photograph Phone booths?

I have HUNDREDS of pics from all over the world

[Crazy Vick]

Phone booths not around?

Do you know I photograph Phone booths?

I have HUNDREDS of pics from all over the world

Ok let's see em!

[erik1925]

Phone booths not around?

Do you know I photograph Phone booths?

I have HUNDREDS of pics from all over the world

I cant even recall the last time I saw one here in LA. More commonly, now, so it seems, pay phones are mounted on walls (like on banks or drug stores, in shopping centers etc) in groups of 2 or 3, side by side.

And because that poster is a US piece, I thought maybe the name was derived for some other reason.

From this Nov, 2014 LA Times article: http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82065614/

"Eventually, the glass booths disappeared, leaving stunted kiosks in their place. But by that time, the phone booth's status as an American icon had been cemented, namely for its starring role in the Clark-Kent-to-Superman transition.

There used to be more than 2 million pay phones in the United States, according to the American Public Communications Council, a trade association. Fewer than 500,000 are left. Of California's 27,000 pay phones, most are concentrated in Los Angeles County, the San Francisco Bay Area and along the Interstate 5 corridor, according to the Public Utilities Commission."

And this is talking about the decline of pay phones in general, not just classic phone booths, whose numbers are even smaller.

[50s]

Yes, please create a phone booth of the day thread

[Ari]

I probably will, Thailand has the best I have seen.

[paul waines]

We still have some over here, though there is less of them..

[erik1925]

Even when phone booths were around in much higher numbers, I don't think I ever remember seeing a movie poster being displayed on any of the 3 glass sides (the fourth being the folding door) when I was growing up.

[eatbrie]

Yes, please create a phone booth of the day thread

Don't forget to show us the fresh gum in the receiver and the smell of piss on the floor.  Yeah, I really miss phone booths and their glamour.

T

[MoviePosterBid.com]

I'd like to know how the definition of "phone booth" came about on these posters
or is it another self-created definition

makes a big difference

[Ari]

well as resident phone booth expert, I've never seen a poster in one, and as said above, not sure where it could possibly go.

I have photographed booths in:

Thailand,
England,
Scotland,
Ireland,
Canada,
USA,
Caribbean,
Dubai,
 and of course Australia.

[erik1925]

The photos sound cool, Ari. Look forward to seeing some, too! 

So where, then, did the term/name, "phone booth" style come from for these size posters? 

[50s]

Ari, why have you been photographing the worlds phone booths?

[erik1925]

I'm thinking because they are a dying breed. Ari is documenting the extinction.   

[50s]

I'm thinking because they are a dying breed.   

Noble, but then why not typewriters, film camera's, dial telephones, TV sets, + thousands more

[erik1925]

Noble, but then why not typewriters, film camera's, dial telephones, TV sets, + thousands more

Only Ari can explain his 'noble cause and reasoning' for photographing the wondrous phone booth. 

[50s]

I reckon a phone booth in Ari's distant past has sentimental value for some reason.




 

[erik1925]

I reckon a phone booth in Ari's distant past has sentimental value for some reason.

Define "sentimental," Steve (if you can). 

[50s]

Define "sentimental," Steve (if you can). 

Exactly, I tried to choose my words carefully in case Ari didn't have his first sexual experience in a phone booth

[erik1925]

Exactly, I tried to choose my words carefully in case Ari didn't have his first sexual experience in a phone booth

     

 

[Ari]

I saw some really interesting ones in Thailand and started noticing them wherever I travelled, and took pics,
I reckon they are more common than you think, but you just don't notice them, once I started taking photos of them i see them everywhere.

Actually Steve, you might recall when I was in that boarding house and my phone service was a mess, and you let me borrow your phone, the day earlier I spent hours in a phone booth nearby just off King Street trying to get my mobile reconnected.
no sex. but swearing, lots of swearing.

[50s]

^ ahh yes, I remember now the phone hassles you had back then